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Thread-Topic: How to recover data from dead hard drive. 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Or have I confused i= t >with dd_rescue again :-) > >But what do you mean by dead? If its not spinning or not recognized by the >system as existing, you'll get nowhere with software. I transplant the >platters to a new IDENTICAL drive mechanism and work from that. You can by= an >identical drive from companies who stock samples them "just in case". >Unsurprisingly, they're not cheap. And transferring platters is not easy. > >I also have some expensive licensed software for recovering incomplete fil= e >systems, and charge Windows users like a wounded rhinoceros when they need >their data back. Years ago, I used "Spinrite" to recover a damaged drive. It worked better t= han anything else on the market, at least for me, at the time. I don't think it has been maintained in over a decade though. Personally, I fail to understand why anyone with any "mission critical" system would not be using some form of RAID. It doesn't make any sense to m= e. Even my Laptop is configured to automatically back up data to a cloud servi= ce. Even if the drive went south, I could restore all of my data. --=20 Carmel